Improvement in patterns for cutting out shirts



@i-stitch tate gatent @ffice JAMES MYERS', 0E NEWr YURK', N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELE AND G. T. RICE, 0F SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No'. 82,740, dated October 6, 1868.

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Be it known that I, JAMES H. MYERS, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and improved Pattern-Chart for Cutting Shirts; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description thereof, which'will enable others skilled iu the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a view of the upper part of my half-shirt front diagram.

Figure 2 is a view of the upper part of the half-shirt back diagram.

Figure 3 is a View of the bosom diagram.

Figure 4 is a viewof the yoke diagram.

Figure 5 'is a view of haltl the neck-band diagram.

Figure 6 is a. view of the 11alf-sleeve diagram.

Similar letters ot' reference indicate corresponding parts. i

My invention consists of a diagram made up of several parts or patterns, so shaped and graduated that the neck, chest, and waist-measurements of a person being determined, theproper` shape of the diierent parts of a shirt is ascertained by the graduated boundary lines delineated upon said patterns.

All the patterns are arranged according to the general forms of persons, and the variations of each are produced with reference to the necessary variations of the others. Thus, for example, the length ofthe waistline for half the front, shown in iig. 1, is, at its outer end, varied by graduations of half inches, each half inch indicating a difference of two inches in the circumference of the wearer at the waist, as the back, shown in 2, is-also graduated at the waist-line by graduations of half inches, which also indicate variations of two inches in the circumference. Each half-inch difference in half' the fr'ont makes one inch inthe Whole front, and each halt` inch in half the back is one inch in the whole back, and thus the difference of two inches of the circumference is obtained. These marks are shown at a in iig. l, andnb in iig. 2. Y

When a person has a circumference at the waist of twenty-six inches, the line so marked on the patterns of the front and back, shows the outer lines requisite for shirtsvthat will tit such person, and the upper en d of such straight line, where it meets the arm-line .of front (at c) or back, (at (L) also indicates the requisite height of the shirt from the waist-line to the arm-pit.

The breast-measure is also indicated by the line a 6, as shown, they being graduated according to general forni. The shoulder-line, e, is determined from the circumference of the neck. It has been found that a person whose neck has a circumference of fifteen inches, measuresfrom shouldertofshoulder eighteen inches,'and in accordance to this the shoulder-line has been graduated, as shown in iig. I, the iigures 12, 13, 14, &c., thereon, indicating the length ofshoulder-line at such a circumference of neck.

The arm-linc,f, of front is drawn from the ascertained points of the shoulder-line to the outer line in the generally-adopted form. The upper line g of the shirt-back is formed from the yoke, fig. 4, on which the line his determined according to the aforesaid rule, it being like halt' the distance from 'shoulder to shoulder, and the line g is four inches longer than'i, to allow the gathering of the back part.

The arm-line 2' of the back .is formed from the termination of the lineg in the requisite manner.

The bosom-recess in the front piece, g.1, is also variable, according to fashion, desire, or size. The variations are indicated on the pattern by lines A B C D, which are half au inch apart at the sides, and one inch at the lower end of the bosom.

These same lines are also formed on the bosom-pattern E, which is shown in Iig. 3, so that both patterns will agree.

The concave recess. Z, in the upperend of the bosom, is determined by the size of the neck. The neckyoke, shown in tig. 4, is formed by the length of shoulder-line e, by that of half the shoulder-distance it, by a suitable width,f, and by the neck-curve j. It will be seen that the lengths e, as well as h, are graduated, also that of the line j, the latter being controlled by the size of neck, as indicated.

The length of the collar-band, shown in fig. 5, is determined by the size of neck, and its height by fashion or desire.

lThe length of the upper sleeve-line k, fig. 6, is graduated according to breast-measure, corresponding to that of the added lines e and fz. The graduations are marked on it, as is clearly shown in iig. 6:

Y From the above it will be seen that butthe neck, breast, and waist-measures of a person of ordinary build are required to produce a shirt that will t such person exactly, all the other measures, such as shoulder-length, arm-lines, Sto., being computed from the three known measurements.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

- The diagram for cutting shirts, consisting of the back, yoke, front, bosom, neck-band, and sleeve-patterns,

of the conguraton shown, having graduated measurements delineated thereon, substantially as shown, for the purpose specied.

JAMES H. MYERS.

Witnesses:

A. V. BRIESEN, ALEX. l". ROBERTS. 

